On a recent episode of the NPR podcast “How I Built This,” billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban described how he got his first job in the software business. With no experience in software, he managed to land an interview at a small company called Your Business Software.

Typography is one of the most important aspects of designing a website. Good typography can improve reading comprehension and usability, while poor typography can make even the best site difficult to use.

Image optimization is the process of reducing image file sizes as much as possible while maintaining an acceptable level of visual quality. It can be a complex topic; there are endless ways to optimize images for the web, and the best technique for a given image depends on its content and context.

I’ve recently been experimenting with HTTrack, an open-source utility that makes it possible to download a full copy of any website. HTTrack is essentially a web crawler, allowing users to retrieve every page of a website merely by pointing the tool to the site’s homepage.

From the HTTrack homepage:

“[HTTrack] allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site’s relative link-structure.”

Atomic Object is looking for Software Developer and Software Designer interns to join our Ann Arbor office for the summer of 2016. Our internships are paid, full-time positions that last from May through August.

In the past few months, I have become very involved in the hiring process here at Atomic’s Ann Arbor office. We’re still relatively small compared to our Grand Rapids counterpart, and we’re actively looking to add people to our team. (Apply here!) Read more on Sweat the Details, Land the Job…